Please allow me to add my two cents:

As early as the 18th century, the so-called Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Philosophy, people were discussing ideas which include the monarchy, religious authority and individual liberty.

At the "turn of the cemtury" (take note millennials,1800s going to the 1900s, no Y2K Bug yet) one very popular "practical thinker" - with sincere apologies - was Charles F. Haanel, from who's writings inspired Napoleon Hill and others who came in after the two major World Wars that weren't religious - they were caused by greed, insatiable greed for wealth and power - these great thinkers and writers include Claude M. Bristol and Uell S. Anderson (USA), James Allen and Dr.Wayne Dyer to name a few.

And with due respects to the women and the girls in this "A" Community of ours, I can't retrieve any female author's name at this moment from my 62-year old memory bank.

Yes bro that's true

Pardon me sir, reading your comment, am I right to interpret the "hell-preventing savior" committed suicide to make things easirer . . . ?

But I agree that the millennials might be confounded and confused with their parents genuflecting and holyrolling. They might even find it funny and amusing.

Yes, most of the youth find no sense in religion. They just hang in there out of respect for their parents, I hope. But some are courageous enough to express their sentiments - at the risk of not getting their allowance for their Saturday night out.

The Rainbow Connection! here are some lines, w/apologies to writers Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher:

What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing and what do we think we might see?
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that and someone believed it
Look what it's done so far
So we've been told and some choose to believe it
All of us under its spell
Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name
We know that it's probably magic

Unlimited information literally at their fingertips any time anywhere!

I think my eldest son, 19, and his kid brother, 8, will both agree with you. They keep telling me, "Dad, there's always an easier way to do things." I believe they're right. And so are you.

I always like to think that these young people are so lucky to have vast amounts of information practically and literally in the palm of their hands which took us, parents and elders, some 50 years to accumulate.

But the deluge of information also have a downside if they're not guided, sincerely and diligently, by well-meaning persons most specially by the parents.

Access to information is a big factor. But on top of that is Common Sense.

It's true that religion has had an unbelievable run though I'm not amazed. Current stats show the "Unaffiliated" are 15% of the world's population and it seem that the variables to be used for their growth are on the wild side and not the "standard" factors.

Curiosity.

"It is doubt that changes things." - John Patrick Shanley

Religion is probably the most lucrative and most profitable business in history.
There has been documented physical and mental abuse by the religious long before the Mayflower docked in Plymouth Bay.

and most of europe, australia, china Russia
and to some degree south america

America is the entertainment capital of the world, every conceivable form of entertainment, be it wholesome, sex and porn, addictive substances, the great divide between the North and the South, the hillbillies and urbanites, racial and gender discrimination, and, yes, the biggest of them all - religion.

Deviants coming to their senses to challenge religious authority because of easy access to information.